apiece en · ADV
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Etymology
Univerbation of a + piece (noun), from Late Middle English a pece. Pece is derived from Anglo-Norman pece, peece, peice, Middle French piece, and Old French pece, pice, piece (“part of a whole”) (modern French pièce); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Late Latin *pettia, *pettium (compare pecia, pecium, petia, petium (“broken piece, fragment; piece of land”)), or from their possible etymon Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion; quota”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Following a noun or noun phrase: by, for, or to each one; each by itself.
There were ſtondynge ſixe water pottes of ſtone after the maner of the purifyinge of the iewes⸝ contaynynge two or thre fyrkyns a pece.
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Jhon ij:[6], folio cxxj, verso:Near-synonyms: all, individually, singly; piecemeal, piecewise
When considering these suggested walking tours, be mindful of the distances involved—roughly two miles apiece for the I Corps, XI Corps, and Provost Marshal's tours, and 1.2 miles for the Baltimore Street tour.
2006 May, John S. Peterson, “Best of … Downtown Gettysburg”, in Keith Poulter, editor, North & South: The Official Magazine of the Civil War Society, volume 9, number 2, Tollhouse, Calif.: North & South Magazine, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 53, column 1:Take nothing for your iourney, neither ſtaues, nor ſcrip, neither bread, neither money, neither haue two coates apeece.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 9:3, signature G2, verso:The engines were built in the Doncaster works at what I believe to have been the low cost, even for those days, of £2,500 apiece, […]
1943 January–February, Cha[rle]s S. Lake, “Some C[hief] M[echanical] E[ngineer]s I Have Known: IV—H[enry] A[lfred] Ivatt”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:[…] Kings at a moderate reckoning Reign but 18 or 20 years a-piece one vvith another: […]
a. 1728 (date written), Isaac Newton, “A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great”, in The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], and J[ohn] Osborn and T[homas] Longman […], published 1728, →OCLC, page 7:He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor.
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 13, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, part 2, page 141:These melons cost a dollar apiece.
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(New-England, especially, not-comparable) For an undetermined distance.
down the road apiece
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Synonyms
all · individually · singly · piecemeal · piecewise
Translations (25)
fi jonkin matkaa (for an undetermined distance) · fr chacun (by, for, or to each one) · es cada uno (by, for, or to each one) · it cadauna (by, for, or to each one) · pt cada um (by, for, or to each one) · eo po (by, for, or to each one) · ca cadascú (by, for, or to each one) · fr chacune (by, for, or to each one) · it cad. (by, for, or to each one) · de pro Stück (by, for, or to each one) · hu darabonként (by, for, or to each one) · bg поединично (by, for, or to each one) · de jedes einzelne (by, for, or to each one) · ca cadascuna (by, for, or to each one) · ca respectivament (by, for, or to each one) · it ciascuno (by, for, or to each one) · fi kappale (by, for, or to each one) · it ciascuna (by, for, or to each one) · nl per stuk (by, for, or to each one) · pt cada uma (by, for, or to each one) · fi kappaleelta (by, for, or to each one) · de je Stück (by, for, or to each one) · bg на парче (by, for, or to each one) · tr birer (by, for, or to each one) · it cadauno (by, for, or to each one)